Black 'n da Blues: Stories and Songs from the Arkansas Delta at Notch Theatre Company
Dates: 4/2/2021
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226 E. 27th St.
Elaine, NY 10016
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April 2, 20218:00 PMRSVP to info@NotchTheatre.org to receive a YouTube link to eventBlack n da Blues: Stories and Songs from the Arkansas Delta is an invitation to gather, to reflect and to reveal. It is a communal ritual. It happens in a cafeteria, a church, a club, a school, a stage, or under some shade; a space where the line between the audience and the performers is blurred because we are all here to be seen and remembered. Written by Carlos Sirah, an internationally produced writer and performer with the Remember2019 Collective, and co-produced with the Elaine Legacy Center in Elaine, the Delta Cultural Center in Helena-West Helena, and the Boys, Girls, Adults, Community and Development Center in Marvell, this collaborative effort features musicians from the Arkansas Delta as they explore the cultural and race history of Phillips County over the last 100 years, as told through the Spirituals, the Blues and R&B. This is a timely show that weaves together live music and oral history in order to tell a story about the last century in Phillips County including the Elaine Massacre of 1919. The performance is like spending an afternoon on the porch with an inter-generational gathering of neighbors as they sing songs and tell stories about the blues, freedom, suffering and endurance. In addition to a showing of the 90-minute concert play, we are also planning to invite the Arkansas artists who made and participated in the show to do a brief talkback afterward.
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